Singapore SingTel allots $220m to beef up mobile network

Singapore SingTel allots $220m to beef up mobile network

SINGTEL, the Republic’s biggest telecommunications company with more than 2.5 million customers, will spend $220 million to upgrade its mobile network over the next 10 months.
It announced yesterday that it had awarded a contract to upgrade its 2G and 3G - second-generation and third-generation - mobile network to Ericsson Telecommunications.

SingTel’s executive vice-president of networks, Mr Mark Chong, said the enhancements would help the telco ‘deliver unparalleled, reliable mobile service and coverage to our customers’.

The upgrade is also being done with an eye to future growth, especially for mobile data, as more customers are accessing data and the Internet on the move, he added.

When the upgrade is complete, SingTel customers will be able to enjoy higher download speeds of up to 14.4mbps from 3.6mbps currently.

Upload speeds will also accelerate to 5.76mbps from the current 384kbps cap.

Within the next 18 months, SingTel expects to be able to offer even faster download speeds of up to 42mbps and upload speeds of 12mbps.

CHUA HIAN HOU

Source : Straits Times - 17 May 2008

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